The Crusades were a series of military conflicts of a religious character of a defensive nature waged by Christians during 1095–1291, most of which were sanctioned by the Pope in the name of Christendom. The Crusades originally had the goal of recapturing Jerusalem and the sacred "Holy Land" from Muslim rule and were originally launched in response to a call from the Eastern Orthodox Byzantine Empire for help against the expansion of the Muslim Seljuq dynasty into Anatolia. Some crusades were made up entirely of children. They were not able to reach the Holy land, they died of hunger and disease.
The Christian's eventually took rule over the land but then it was reclaimed by the Muslim's. Now Jerusalem is part of Israel.
Interesting
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades
6 comments:
cool!
that is relly cool information!!! great job, keep it up!
cool man! all that historical stuff is fascinating!!!
great blogging. i love the way you made hyperlinks with your text to other info
do you think the fact that jerusalem is in Israel now might cause some of the conflict in the middle east between arabs and jews? maybe that's an issue for high school.
it's such a fascinating area of study - international relations. you can study politics or history at university to learn about such things.
that would be cool if we could yalk about that at school.
great blogging pom!
pim:P
I'm sure it would Mr Woody
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